Dr. Phil Plait , aka "The Bad Astronomer" . ... Bad Astronomy site . ... His numerous appearances on radio, television, podcasts, and live in front of audiences have made him a celebrity in science circles, and put him in demand as an expert on astronomical matters. ... His website, Bad Astronomy , is a virtual encyclopedia of astronomical errors, and his blog is one of the most popular science blogs on the web, with thousands of fans eagerly reading it every day. ... Phil seemed tireless!" ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... SAI VO Wiki . ... Program Access . SAI CAS Wiki . SAI Web Services . ... DSS Mirror . ... We provide an implementation of IVOA standard Simple Image Access Protocol interface to our DSS mirror. Service metadata is available here . Currently, we provide the atlas service only, which returns the list of original DSS images intersecting the requested sky area. ... SAI MSU | ...

... The Triplet Lenses are manufactured by LOMO PLC of St. Petersburg Russia, one of the world's largest and most advanced optical manufacturers. ... This day the official web site of St.Petersburg company, lomo.ru, became accessible. ... LOMO VOTING PAPERS PROCESSING COMPLEXES TESTED SUCCESSFULLY . On December 16, 2001 during elections to Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Region, Russia, pilot pieces of the new Voting Papers Processing Complex created at LOMO PLC were used for the first time. ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...

UPPER PANEL: The gas surface density map in log scale. The red circle in the center represents the central protostar. The development of spiral structure in the protostellar disk is evident. Dense protostellar/protoplanetary clumsp form within the spiral arms and are driven into the protostar by the action of gravitational torques. LOWER PANEL: The mass accretion rate onto the protostar as a function of time. The mass accretion rate is characterized by very short ( . ...

... Meantime catalogue represents data collected by MSU-E & MCU-SK devices from spacecrafts "Resurs" , "Okean-O" and "Meteor-3M". ... Select in particular fields on the main page of catalogue ' Search MSU-E ' or ' Search MSU-SK ' for immidiate search using selected criteria, then provide coordinate data, time as well as quality and percentage of clauds and submit your request. ... For browsing archived data refer to ' Data ordering ' item on the main page. ...

What is the VSM ? ... VRML = Virtual Reality Modeling Language. ... One of the best VRML viewers, if not the best, is Netscape Navigator with Live3D plugin. ... Warning: if you use any other viewer, spacecraft will probably look like parrots or clowns because each VRML viewer treats colors in its own unpredictable way. ... You can use these VRML models freely in any way you like, but: 1) let me know you use them; 2) if you add them to your Web page, a reference to the VSM must be there. ...

... Today this year's largest group of sunspots will cross the Sun's central meridian. ... The next day, the number of spots in the group reached five, and the day after, on June 2nd, it was possible to count thirteen sunspots on solar disk, which had been clear prior to this. ... This year's two most powerful active areas, which passed across the solar disk at the beginning of May, 2009, are set to appear in the Sun's eastern sector in two days, on June 6th. ...